Bloor and Oracle seem to be in a war of words. According to Bloor’s technology Research Director, Philip Howard, “Oracle doesn’t like my suggesting that it is under attack or,
Gartner has announced a series of changes to its Magic Quadrant (MQ) and MarketScope (MS). In a nutshell, the key changes are these: 1. Gartner is standardizing some of the
A colleague and I have just completed a AR effectiveness audit that compares the performance of a group of IT services firms. One activity, which we call Analyst Mindshare, involves
Lighthouse’s AR Intranet has had an major upgrade to mark the opening of the second half. The intranet includes a listing of 505 analyst firms, would be analyst firms, and
Pleon hosted a meeting for its UK alumni last night. This PR business of the BBDO advertising giant acquired the European business of Brodeur, where I and a few of
Blogs don’t give their readers much of a feeling of community: even though hundreds of people stop by to read, it’s hard to get a flavour of who else shares
On Friday I hosted a lunchtime seminar for several Silicon Valley analyst relations professionals to assess the challenges that the META-Gartner acquisition produces, both for analyst relations professionals and for
I had a great comment today from an analyst in Germany, who says to me: “You point out that companies like bundles of research and consulting. At least for Germany,
